GRAVE RUMOUR
JAPANESE ACTION
PREPARING SUBMARINE BASES.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received Jan. 25th. at 11 a.m.) LONDON, January 24
It is understood that the mandates commission report which is being presented to the League Council deals with a startling allegation that Japan spent £IOO,OOO in the preparation of submarine bases Perlcw and Marienne Islands.
The Geneva correspondent of the “Daily Herald” which is bitterly antagonistic to Japan, publishes a grave suggestion ithat the League and America are disturbed by the reports that Japan is secretly .preparing submarine bases at Marianne and Pelew Islands, held under a mandate, forbidding fortifications, and meanwhile is forbidding unauthorised visitor!® to approach the new harbour.
The report was shown to Mr Bruce, who quoted an extract from the minutes of the Permanent Mandates Commission showing a similar rumour was investigated last year by the Commission, which sent a note to Japanese delegates, whose denial later was confirmed by the Government’s statement, that Japan never contemplated a naval base at islands under mandate .
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1933, Page 5
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